Path 2

The Marriage of Maria Braun

November 10, 2010

Dir. R.W. Fassbinder (1979).
R. W. Fassbinder’s biggest international hit provides a smashing showcase for his most celebrated diva Hannah Schygulla, but in all other respects it’s the least of the ambivalently retro trilogy he made decrying the German “economic miracle” of the 1950s.